Case file · Haunting
Getúlio Vargas and the Catete Palace
On 24 August 1954 President Getúlio Vargas shot himself in his bedroom at the Catete Palace in Rio. Staff and visitors of what is now the Museum of the Republic tell of his ghost in the corridors.
1954 CE · -22.93, -43.18 · status: legend
The account
His suicide letter ('I leave life to enter history') is one of the most famous texts in Brazilian politics. The room is preserved as it was.